From Slave Ship to Supermax : Mass Incarceration, Prisoner Abuse, and the New Neo-Slave Novel.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (260 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Antipanoptic Expressivity and the New Neo-Slave Novel -- 1. Talking in George Jackson's Shadow: Neo-Slavery, Police Intimidation, and Imprisoned Intellectualism in Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk -- 2. Middle Passage Reinstated: Whispers from the Women's Prison in Morrison's Beloved -- 3. "Didn't I say this was worse than prison?" The Slave Ship-Supermax Relation in Johnson's Middle Passage -- 4. "tell them im a man": Slavery's Vestiges and Imprisoned Radical Intellectualism in Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying -- Epilogue: The Prison Classroom and the Neo-Abolitionist Novel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Imprisonment in literature. African American prisoners in literature. American fiction-20th century-History and criticism. American fiction-African American authors-History and criticism.